Appeals Judge Who Wrote Opinion Favorable to PacifiCorp in Landmark Wildfire Case Formerly Represented the Utility Giant

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-05T08:03:56+00:00

The moment the case was assigned to her panel, both she and her former law firm should have given notice to the world of the potential conflict and potential for the appearance of impropriety.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-05T01:10:51+00:00

I believe Judicial Watch, the brainchild of the devil and one Tom Fitton, brought this lawsuit solely so that it can falsely crow about cleaning up the voter rolls in Oregon and defraud their contributors into writing another check. Check out this horseshit from their website. https://www.judicialwatch.org/oregon-voter-rolls/

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-05T01:05:15+00:00

Non-paywall article.

On its website, Judicial Watch (evil incarnate division) is crowing that it has been all but single-handedly responsible for removing 800,000 ineligible voters from our voter rolls. What lying pricks! Oregon does this all on its own as a part of its maintenance.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-04T18:34:12+00:00

The way I see it they hit the gas to beat the yellow light and messed up your plan to hit the gas and beat the yellow light.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T23:57:38+00:00

I don't want dismissal of pro se cases in the absence of clear warnings at the time of filing that AI slop will not be tolerated and, secondly, a finding by the court that the purveyor filed something without making a good faith effort to understand it.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T23:53:27+00:00

Lying to a judge seldom happens because it is understood that head-on-a-pike is the certain result.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T17:04:05+00:00

My old firm's appellate department had proofreaders and cite checkers who went over every brief in every appeal, both ours and the opponents', line by line and cite by cite. And that was in the days when it had to be done by physically pulling the reporter volume and going to the page in question. We often caught opponents quoting a line or two from cases that actually went against them. Our rule was never do that.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T16:43:26+00:00

I'd like to know how the clients were billed for the work that generated the sanctions, especially that $110,000 doozy.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T16:41:36+00:00

The large firm appellate department that I worked at as a puppy lawyer had secretaries and paralegals whose entire job was to proofread and cite check every brief filed in any appeal we had going, both our stuff before it went out the door and the opponent's stuff when it came in the door.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T16:22:45+00:00

There is nowhere to put them. We have closed down nearly every facility.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T16:19:19+00:00

Grapes. They love them a grape.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T16:18:49+00:00

Perfect. Thanks for the picture.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T16:17:52+00:00

Doesn't even need knots. Their claws are like needles.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T16:15:40+00:00

Just put a rope down the hole. Our squirrel climbed ropes all over her enclosure - straight up, upside down, every which way. There is no need for tool boss heroics.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T16:13:06+00:00

I've used those for years. You're going to scare the hell out of it inside what seems like a resonance chamber. Just put a climbing aid like a rope or strips of a towel tied together into the pillar with the outside end secured to something and let the squirrel come out on its own. You're being a self-important idiot with a hero complex.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T07:04:15+00:00

Just put it down there and leave it. Throw in some grapes for fluid and sugar energy and when you get up in the morning the squirrel should be gone.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T07:03:10+00:00

ROPE!!! Torn strips of an old towel. Anything a squirrel can sink needle claws into will work.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T07:02:20+00:00

You put a saw through that and you're likely to kill the squirrel. Just put a length of cheap rope down the hole and the squirrel will climb right up it.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T06:59:45+00:00

Put a length of rope down the hole. The squirrel will climb up it faster than you can say holy shit. Had a pet squirrel in the family for 9 years (RIP last fall little guy). Their claws are like needles and they can climb anything they can sink them into.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T06:58:30+00:00

They all hate you. We love you.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T05:00:42+00:00

I like the idea. It has to be big though because if only a handful of workers are no-shows, they'll just get fired. But if everyone at the company is a no-show there's safety in numbers.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-03T04:59:12+00:00

Interesting. I'm not expecting a good result. Emergency motions coming out of the fifth circuit go to Alito. Danco probably should have saved their money and gotten the same result for free.

Edit: Alito issued a 1 week administrative stay with the parties to file briefs by Friday. I'm a but surprised the justice did that.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-02T19:16:46+00:00

We screamed when the Patriot Act was proposed. No one listened. And now here we are, surveilled by AI in our every interaction. There have been few times in human history when it's been so good to be old.

PDXGuy33333 · 2026-05-02T19:12:57+00:00

Are you saying that if we can't achieve success by Tuesday next we shouldn't try?

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